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Independence, Tish believes, has been the single most important factor in changing American manners in the past decade. "Women have discovered that they can live alone without crumbling," she says. "More men are living alone and not crumbling. A woman can entertain marvelously and tend the bar and make just as good drinks as when she had a husband making the drinks. And a man can get out in the kitchen and do a gourmet dinner that will impress anybody...
...else struggling to get into a coat lends a helping hand ... A person picks up a check in the coffee shop or a restaurant when it's his or her turn. A man or a woman stands up in the office to greet a male or a female visitor." Tish gears her book to an intuition that manners are practical and even liberating. They have long since been disjoined from moral...
...Manners," Tish insists, "make you feel self-reliant...
...Women who are reaching for the executive suite are going to have to accept ... the financial responsibilities of their new status," Tish writes. Still she gets rather squeamish, for a feminist, about the way a woman should pay the check after a business lunch: If she uses a credit card or signs for the tab, she should do so "quietly, no one around them need be aware of her actions." Still more surreptitious is the course she advises for a woman when she senses that the man is uncomfortable about her paying: "She should excuse herself at dessert time...
...fingers only on such occasions as picnics, barbecues, boat rides and other informal outdoor gatherings." As for caviar, "never take more than a teaspoonful, or you will have everyone glaring at you, thinking there won't be any left for them." Like most arbiters since the Middle Ages, Tish believes that "burping is nature's way of getting rid of excess gas, and suppressing it may be physically harmful...